This WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs
Resources is a frequently updated Internet directory of
over 2000 annotated links to high-quality English-language
sources of information and analysis in a wide range of
international affairs, international relations,
international studies, global studies, and global
education topics. These sites are carefully selected for
their long-term value, favoring those with cost-free,
authoritative information and analysis online. Each
website is described only in general terms because of the
typically rapid changes in details of its contents and
features.

NEWS
SOURCES

News Search Engines, Gateways,
and Aggregators

Note: Specialized
media sources for European Union news appearat
the top of the European
Union page of this Virtual Library. News media
sources focusing on or originating in
specific world regions appear at the top of
the pageof this Virtual Library
dedicated to that region.

Bing News-- Major
news search engine that is largely focused on the United
States, but with a useful World section.

European
Media Monitor Newsbrief-- Major world news
aggregator sponsored by European Union agencies: "Novel
and unique software that gathers reports from news portals
world-wide in 60 languages, classifies the articles,
analyses the news texts by extracting information from
them, aggregates the information, issues alerts and
produces intuitive visual presentations of the information
found." Also see the EMM News
Explorer.

Global
Voices-- "An international, volunteer-led project
that collects, summarizes, and gives context to some of
the best self-published content found on blogs, podcasts,
photo sharing sites, and videoblogs from around the world,
with a particular emphasis on countries outside of Europe
and North America." Note their Advox project
that "reports on threats to online speech, shares tactics
for defending the work and words of netizens, and supports
efforts to improve Internet policy and practice
worldwide."

Google
Custom Search facility for all of the major
newspapers in the United Kingdom, from Phil Bradley.

Today's Front Pages-- Unusual offering from the Newseum
(USA), today's front pages from hundreds of newspapers
from scores of countries, "in their original, unedited
form," enlargeable and with links to the web sites of
those papers.

Watching
America-- "Discover What the World Thinks About
U.S." with English language translations of foreign press
commentary about the United States and its foreign policy,
from around the world and with links to the original
sources.

World News Network-- Highly-rated
gateway to a very large number of World News Network
online news sources worldwide (including specialized
ones), by region, country, and topics of coverage, plus
search capabilities for news items in many languages.

Worldcrunch--
"Delivers the best global journalism previously shut off
from English language readers: selecting, translating and
editing content from top foreign-language outlets."

Directories
of News Sources

• Abyz News Links-- Links to
many thousands of newspapers and other news sources
from around the world, those with news content of
widespread interest.

• Big Project-- From the UK, a
large Internet directory of English-language
newspapers worldwide.

• Hot
Newspapers-- Online newspapers from around the
world, over 10,000, organized by region, country,
city, state or province, and language.

• List of
Newspapers-- "Largest directory of newspapers
around the world," links to over 25,000 newspapers
in over 200 countries and territories.

• Newspaperindex-- Presents the
most important online newspapers in most countries
of the world.

• Online Newspapers.com-- A
global listing of thousands, by country, from Web
Wombat, an Australian search engine company.

• World-Newspapers-- Directory
of online English-language newspapers and news sites
around the world, by country, plus magazines by
type.

Major
News Sources with Global Coverage

• Agence France-Presse--
"Global news agency delivering fast, in-depth coverage
of the events shaping our world from wars and
conflicts to politics, sports, entertainment and the
latest breakthroughs in health, science and
technology."

• Al Jazeera-- "International
news channel with over sixty bureaus around the world
that span six different continents," with
headquarters in Doha, Qatar. Recognized for its
reporting on less-covered regions and topics.

• BBC News Online-- World news
from one of the most trusted sources, in print, audio,
and video.

• International Business Times--
Fine source for global business news, with several
country-based international editions available, in the
respective languages.

• Inter
Press Service-- World news stressing developing
countries, from a "global news agency producing
independent news and analysis about events and global
processes affecting the economic, social and political
development of peoples and nations, especially in the
[global] South."

• Le
Monde Diplomatique-- World-renown French
language newspaper; this link is to the
English-language edition, with archives.

• New York Times-- Fine
international section. Site features a free searchable
archive of full-text NYT news items since
1981. Signing up for a free account
gives you access to columnists, breaking news
alerts, and daily alerts about headline news items in
topics that you select from many options.

• Overseas
Security Advisory Council-- From the U.S.
Department of State, advisories on security-related
issues around the world including "Travel Advisories,
Public Announcements, daily security related news
articles, overseas reports on security and crime
incidents, terrorist group profiles, significant
anniversary dates, general crime information for
cities and countries, locations and contacts at U.S.
posts overseas, and updates on new or unusual
situations."

• Project
Syndicate-- "The world's opinion page...
produces and delivers original high-quality
commentaries to a global audience... we provide news
media and their readers cutting-edge analysis and
insight..." with contributions from prominent
scholars, policymakers, activists, civic leaders,
etc., from around the world.

• Pulitzer Center on
Crisis Reporting-- "Innovative award-winning
non-profit journalism organization dedicated to
supporting the independent international journalism
that U.S. media organizations are increasingly less
able to undertake. The Center focuses on
under-reported topics, promoting high-quality
international reporting and creating platforms that
reach broad and diverse audiences."

• Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty-- "Daily report of
developments in Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus
and Central Asia, based on news gathered by the
correspondents, services and regional specialists of
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty," whose mission is "to
provide uncensored news and information to countries
where a free press is either banned by the government
or not fully established."

• Reuters--
Top
world and business news stories from this prestigious
agency.

• Time--
The
U.S. edition of the prestigious American weekly news
magazine.

• Voice
of America News-- News and special reports,
printed and audio (in scores of languages), from this
U.S. government international service.